Prof. Dr. N. SRIDHARAN is currently with School of
Planning and Architecture, BHOPAL, as its Director. He is Chairperson of the Educational
Standing Committee of the professional body of Institute of Town Planners’ India
and one of the Vice-Presidents of Regional Science Association, India. Earlier,
he was Director of School of Planning and Architecture-Vijayawada, and worked with
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi as a Professor.
Dr. Sridharan has more than 33 years of experience in the
field of Urban and Regional Planning. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics, Urban
and Regional Planning, Town & Country Planning (Poland) and Financial Management
in addition to a Doctoral Degree from RMIT, Australia in the field of Urban Planning.
He has published widely in national and international journals in the fields of
Urban Governance & finance, Peri-Urban Development, rural development and Spatial
Data Infrastructure.
Dr. Sridharan has been a visiting researcher at the University
of Cologne in Germany, University of Florence, Italy, University of Paris, University
of Amsterdam and University of Twente (ITC-Enschede), The Netherlands, and, International
Institute of Ecology (IOER), Dresden, Germany. He has been honoured by many Indian
and foreign universities on many occasions. His area of interest includes urban
governance and finance, Peri-Urban Development, Rurban Cluster Planning, Corridor
Development and Urbanisation, Urban Land Markets, poverty and sustainability, and,
Spatial Data Infrastructure.
Committees:-

Technical Member, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of
India, Committee on : Formulation of Planning Guidelines for RURAL Areas.